Horrific injury to my broody - query prognosis

Head for your nearest healthfood shop and buy a large quantity of Active Manuka Honey, slather the wound in Honey and bandage.

Change daily - the honey will kill off any bugs and will help heal by its natural oxygen production it also reduces proud flesh. Active Manuka Honey has natural antibiotics in it which will help keep the wound clean.

I've seen it work on some really horrendous wounds including one from work that split its breast open from the point of shoulder to just behind the elbow. She recovered really well.
 
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Ask your vet for some intrasite gel it stops the wound healing from the outside first - inside needs to heal first will help stop proud tissue as well you can buy it from a dispensing chemist which is probably cheaper
 
Evelyn said:
Head for your nearest healthfood shop and buy a large quantity of Active Manuka Honey, slather the wound in Honey and bandage.

Change daily - the honey will kill off any bugs and will help heal by its natural oxygen production it also reduces proud flesh. Active Manuka Honey has natural antibiotics in it which will help keep the wound clean.

I've seen it work on some really horrendous wounds including one from work that split its breast open from the point of shoulder to just behind the elbow. She recovered really well.
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OP - speak to HenryHorn on hear about the Manuka. I know that she's used it very successfully in the past - but it has to be the right sort, as some manuka is no better than the regular honey we buy off the shelves.
 
Gawd!

Some years ago my mare staked herself on a protruding branch whilst out on a hack and peeled off most of the skin on her shoulder. Dozens of stitches later and a month or so box rest, so that she didn't stretch the stitches in the field, she was absolutely fine and apart from a small scar you'd never have known she'd done anything.

This was 25 years ago at least and treatments have moved on a lot since then. Admittedly I didn't have the foal issue to worry about.

Fingers crossed for her and her baby xx
 
my welsh mare did something very similar last year not long after i had bought her as a rising 4 year old. looked like a leg of lamb ready to be roasted when she did it.

YOu could see the tendons and the bone. we got her into the vets and they flushed to see if it had gone into the joint which it hadnt. they operated the next day to debride it and clean it all up. she wasnt stitched at all - just bandaged.

she came home 2 days later and dressings were changed twice a week for a few weeks then once a week.

she was never lame, only stayed in for about a week despite being bandaged from stifle to fetlock.

she is now completely healed and we have been riding her again since last november - she did it at the end of May 2010.

within a month it had gone from something the size of your mares to literally a straight line about half an inch wide. within 2 months it was hairline. I do have pictures which i can email but cant get them on here as not on my Photobucket.

Once it had become dry i did put vaseline on it to stop the scar becoming too dry. It has hair growing back on it as well although it sticks out.

we had bought her to show and to eventually be a broodmare. not sure whether she will show but she has an amazing jump on her still
 
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